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Tim Goodman commented on HIVE-2742:
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I had a similar issue using
INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE [mySchema].[myTable] PARTITION([myPartition]) SELECT
...
It works the first time, and then fails the second time, presumably because in
the latter case it has to alter the existing partition.
But as a workaround, do
USE [mySchema];
before the overwrite, and then it works.
It is similar to the fact that you can't do
ALTER TABLE [mySchema].[myTable] ...
but instead must do
USE [mySchema]; ALTER TABLE [myTable] ...
> InvalidOperationException "alter table is not possible" when using LOAD DATA
> INPATH OVERWRITE with database and partition
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HIVE-2742
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2742
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Database/Schema, Metastore, Query Processor
> Affects Versions: 0.7.1
> Environment: reproduced on cdh3u2 (haven't tried other versions)
> Reporter: Maxime Brugidou
>
> Here is a repeatable procedure:
> {code}
> $ echo "test" | hadoop fs -put - test.txt
> $ echo "test2" | hadoop fs -put - test2.txt
> {code}
> Then in hive:
> {code}
> > create database catalog;
> > use catalog;
> > create table test_load (t string) partitioned by (p string);
> > use default;
> {code}
> Then the problem arises:
> {code}
> > load data inpath 'test.txt' overwrite into table catalog.test_load
> > partition (p='test');
> Loading data to table catalog.test_load partition (p=test)
> OK
> Time taken: 0.175 seconds
> > load data inpath 'test2.txt' overwrite into table catalog.test_load
> > partition (p='test');
> Loading data to table catalog.test_load partition (p=test)
> Moved to trash:
> hdfs://mycluster/user/hive/warehouse/catalog.db/test_load/p=test
> Failed with exception InvalidOperationException(message:alter is not possible)
> FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MoveTask
> {code}
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